Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 December 2023

Committee on Public Petitions

Decisions on Public Petitions Received

Photo of Martin BrowneMartin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That was one of the replies. One of the others referred to the fact that the bodies were buried in quicklime and that there may be the remains of executed prisoners in the same area. As we said at the private meeting earlier, with the technology nowadays I cannot see how that would be a major problem. If a skeleton is found, DNA tests can identify who is who.

I note there are three State bodies involved here. We have the Department of public expenditure, the OPW and the Department of housing and heritage. I think some of the excuses are being used because none of them wants to-----

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